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**It's with such pride and pleasure that we witness that at the dawn of 21st
century, and in these turbulent times of profound religious animosities and
mistrusts, a Sufi Shaykh is, once again, rising to the occasion by not only
condemning and rejecting any and all acts of prejudice, hatred, and terrorist
activities by the fanatic Muslims, but also preaching the genuine teachings of
respect, tolerance, and the interfaith-dialogue and plurality of Islam. To read
the 600-pages Fatwa of Shaykh Qadri in English , please click on above image or
visit: "Fatwa: Suicide Bombing and Terrorism" (in English)

If Rumi were alive today, he would have overwhelmingly approved Shakh Qadri's
noble Sufi act. Rumi would have also addressed his fellow Muslims through these
meaningful and mystical verses:

It is your turn now,
You waited, you were patient.
The time has come,
For us to polish you.
We will transform your inner pearl
Into a house of fire.
You're a gold mine.
Did you know that,
Hidden in the dirt of the earth?
It is your turn now,
To be placed in fire.
Let us cremate your impurities.
Rumi.

"The world needs an absolute, unconditional, unqualified and total
condemnation of terrorism. No person in the whole world can provide a single
evidence from Koran who would create any exceptional permissibility to
committing suicide bombing..So that the whole world may know that whatever the
terrorists are doing, they no link with Islam, and I wanted to give this message
to the youth in Western world also, that these kind of activities will lead them
to hellfire, and they're not involved in any kind of martyrdom operation. Rather
they are doing an act which is an act of disbelief...The reality is that
whatever these terrorists are doing it is not martyrdom. All these activities
are taking them to hellfire.."

Excertps from Shaykh Qadris' Fatwa (Religious Ruling) on Terrorists.

Sheikh Issues Fatwa Against Terrorists

3 Mar 2010

(Newser) – An influential Islamic scholar has issued a sweeping and
unreserved condemnation of terrorism in all its forms as un-Islamic. "Terrorism
is terrorism, violence is violence and it has no place in Islamic teaching and
no justification can be provided for it," Sheik Tahir ul-Qadri wrote in his
600-page fatwa ruling against terrorism. He warned that suicide bombers are not
martyrs but "heroes of hellfire" whose actions can never be considered part of
holy war.

Qadri is far from the first Islamic scholar to condemn terrorism, but he goes
further than most by declaring terrorists unbelievers instead of merely
declaring terrorist acts forbidden, the Independent notes. His ruling is one of
the few available both online and in English, and experts hope it may sway
Western-born Muslims leaning toward extremism. An Urdu-language version will
soon be issued in Pakistan, where a close friend of Qadri's was assassinated
last year after issuing a similar fatwa.